30 TOLTANDRIA POLYGYNIA, 



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A handsome shrub, growing somethnes 6—10 feet high, remarkable fef 

 f js bright, so^ooth, perennial leaves. Leaves on short petioles, rather acute 

 than obtuse, but never acuminate. Flowers small, axillary, generally cer- 

 l»uous, on peduncles scarcely 1-2 an inch long. Petals dull yellow, gen- 

 erally 6—8 but I believe not definite m their number. Stamens short, 

 aerm superior. Capsules very handsomely arranged in a circle around a 

 central receptacle. 



This plant, originally, I believe, from the banks of St. John's, East^ 

 JriOTida, IS now cqmmoh in our gardens, and is almost naturalized. 

 * lowers May-T^June. 



MAGNOLIA, Gen. Pl. 942. 



Calyx 



Petala 6 



9. 



Ice 2-valves 



3.phyllus. 

 Capsu- 



Calyx 3-Ieaved 



Petals 6 



^1-spermae 

 in strgbilum imbrica- 



9 



Cap 



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la. 



^emina pendu- 



sules 2-valved, l-seed 

 ed, imbricated 



9 



form 



mg an ovate strobiliis 

 Seeds pendulous. 



Leaves perennial 

 oval lanceolate, thick 



coriaceous. 



ferru 



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gm 



1^ Grandiflora. 



- M. foJiis perennan- 



tibus,ovali-lanceblatis, 

 crassis, coriaceis, sub- 



tus ferrugineis ,• petal- 

 is dilatatoobovatis,ab 

 rupte in unguem an- 

 gustatis. 



ous underneath -, pe- 

 tals obovate, abruptly 

 contracted into a claw* 



magn 



60 



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nar stem, and the head when nnt C' iT ^"^ "" "^^^^ ^"^««tti colunv 



pyramidal, or semi elliptica" FrorMav ttV,'"*^.' • ' 'r '^''T ''^^^ 

 It IS almost always covered with U^K -i^ ? A .^'* "" favorable situations 

 young branches. The petals a^?i^"'^' 't'' flowers, terminating the 

 rowed at base; concave, coriaceTusT', bt'' '' "^"^^^*^' -bruptly^nar- 

 stantly ferruginous, when sTratchpH k "''? ''^"*^' but becoming in- 

 — "- ^''m with thrpobttf':' ". '!;Tlt . J:^^^^^^^^ -i§ be 



aggregated 



than 



on an 



Stamens very 

 Germs superior 



8 " UK recepade, unbncated, spUtting longiiadioally. 



